Aude
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Aude is a department in southern France, located in Occitania and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" after a group of religious dissidents active in th
Mountain landscape in the Razès at Quillan
Lightning during an autumn storm off the coast of Port-la-Nouvelle.
Skull of Tautavel Man discovered at Tautavel, not far from Aude
Septimania
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Septimania is a historical region in modern-day Southern France. It referred to the western part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed to the control of the Visigoths in 462 CE, when
Military campaigns and geopolitical situation in southern Gaul (740)
Septimania during Pepin's expedition and conquest (752–759)
Arab and Berber Muslim troops retreating from Narbonne after the Frankish conquest of Septimania in 759. Illustration by Émile Bayard, 1880.
Expansion of the Frankish Empire: Realm of Pepin the Short in 758 Conquests under Charlemagne until 814 Marches and dependencies Papal States Byzantine Empire